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1400
Golden Age of Exploration
Europeans sailed around Africa for money. -
1500
European traders began to sell Africans guns
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Period: 1500 to
The Europeans began to build trading posts in Africa
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Europe had taken nearly all of Africa
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Africans began to seriously rebel against colonization
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South Africa was granted Independence from Great Britan
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The Kikuyu people of Kenya began a political organization
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Italy invaded Ethiopia
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Kwame Nkrumah introduced the idea of pan - Africanisim
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white Southey americans made the apartheid law
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The people in the South rebelled against northern rule leading to two civil wars
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Sudan gained its independence from Great Britan
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Ghana gained its independence
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Nigeria became independent
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Belgium Congo became independent
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Kenya became independent
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Mandela was arrested and sentenced to life in prison for his actions
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Joseph Mobutu seized power
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The Igbo people tried to declare themselves independent
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F.W. De Klerk was elected president
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De Klerk reached announced the end of apartheid and released Nelson Mandela
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South Africa help its first open elections
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count people in Tunisia began to agitate for more democratic government
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A new government was elected
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Sudan recognized South Sudans independence
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President Ben Ali resigned and a democratic government was elected
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He was forced to resign
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Mubarak was replaced by a Islamic fundamentalist.
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His government was overthrown by the military